"Caldonia" is a jump blues song, first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. Although credited to Fleecie Moore, his wife at the time...
7 KB (787 words) - 08:16, 21 June 2024
Follow the Boys and Swing Parade of 1946. His very successful musical short Caldonia (1945) prompted three more feature films, all starring Jordan and his band:...
46 KB (4,346 words) - 21:40, 15 July 2024
Rodeo Caldonia also known as Rodeo Caldonia High Fidelty Performance Theater was a black feminist arts collective based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn during...
11 KB (1,106 words) - 14:31, 15 July 2024
Alva Rogers (section Rodeo Caldonia)
collaborations. From 1985 to 1989, she was a founding member of Rodeo Caldonia, a black women's art collective formed in the Brooklyn neighborhood of...
16 KB (1,464 words) - 04:15, 14 June 2024
Caldonia is a two reel American musical short film directed by William Forest Crouch and released by Astor Pictures in 1945. The film stars musician Louis...
5 KB (556 words) - 12:37, 3 July 2024
Sanford Tollette and his wife Caldonia Crofton Tollette in the 1800s. They built a church, a store, and a public school. Caldonia Tollette was postmistress...
8 KB (632 words) - 14:06, 14 May 2024
Carmella & King Kong and Combination Skin while involved with the Rodeo Caldonia, a feminist collective of African-American women artists. Combination Skin...
9 KB (808 words) - 06:19, 15 August 2024
roll era, including "Let The Good Times Roll", "Keep A-Knockin'", and "Caldonia". Carl Hogan's opening riff to "Ain't That Just Like A Woman" later became...
7 KB (646 words) - 18:47, 25 May 2024
the album's tracks including "Don't Cry Baby", "Out of the Blue" and "Caldonia". The album was arranged by Sammy Lowe. In mid 2018, some 54 years after...
5 KB (221 words) - 21:44, 18 October 2022
pulsing beat". At least two other Jordan records are viewed as jump blues, "Caldonia" and "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie". Jordan's jump blues combined good-natured novelty...
10 KB (1,069 words) - 17:49, 28 July 2024
previously unreleased. Among the tracks added are a version of Louis Jordan's "Caldonia" featuring Muddy Waters and Pinetop Perkins trading off the vocal, a reworked...
31 KB (1,403 words) - 20:30, 16 July 2024
the Woody Herman band recorded "Caldonia". Neal Hefti and Ralph Burns collaborated on the arrangement of "Caldonia" that the Herman band used. "Ralph...
34 KB (3,138 words) - 19:02, 16 August 2024
producer, songwriter, sound designer, and vocalist. She was a member of Rodeo Caldonia High Fidelity Performance Theater. Derin Young was raised in New York City...
5 KB (434 words) - 00:59, 28 July 2023
President?" – which became his catchphrase – during his performance of "Caldonia". He was the first African American performer to appear at the annual WHCA...
9 KB (831 words) - 21:29, 29 June 2024
some of the tracks, but ended up having no involvement with the album. "Caldonia" (Fleecie Moore) -- 4:01 "Blue Shadows" (Lloyd Glenn) -- 5:11 "Alexis'...
6 KB (550 words) - 00:38, 8 January 2024
well as takes from rehearsals. Among the additions are Louis Jordan's "Caldonia" by Muddy Waters, the concert version of "The Weight", "Jam #1" and "Jam...
52 KB (4,928 words) - 19:33, 17 August 2024
Fairfax, California in the 1970s, and he also recorded a cover of the song "Caldonia" (with the name spelled "Caledonia") in 1974. Morrison used "Caledonia"...
193 KB (20,047 words) - 13:51, 16 August 2024
this period. He became inspired to become an entertainer after hearing "Caldonia" by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. In his teen years, Brown briefly...
164 KB (18,394 words) - 15:47, 15 August 2024
and joined Hudson's Medicine Show in 1949, performing Louis Jordan's "Caldonia". Richard recalled that the song was the first secular R&B song he learned...
157 KB (17,453 words) - 11:08, 11 August 2024
began his career in New Orleans in 1948. Mike Tessitore, owner of the Caldonia Club, gave Longhair his stage name. Longhair first recorded in a band called...
23 KB (2,612 words) - 17:45, 12 July 2024
April 25, 1945 edition, Orodenker described Erskine Hawkins' version of "Caldonia" as "right rhythmic rock and roll music", a phrase precisely repeated in...
113 KB (14,145 words) - 19:26, 3 July 2024
and Delivered" 1964 "Oh Baby Don't You Weep" "Please, Please, Please" "Caldonia" "The Things That I Used to Do" "Out of Sight" "Have Mercy Baby" 1965 "Papa's...
10 KB (1,055 words) - 11:57, 6 August 2024
Chase) 4:50 "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) 3:15 "Caldonia" (Fleecie Moore) - 7:40 Nat Pierce - arranger, piano Bob Hammer - arranger...
2 KB (156 words) - 19:36, 17 March 2024
lyrical reference to Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue, Sweet Georgia Brown, Caldonia, Elder Brown, and Deacon Jones. All of these characters had figured prominently...
13 KB (1,290 words) - 07:03, 21 August 2024
gecko, Rhacodactylus trachycephalus A revision of the giant geckos of New Caldonia found weak support for inclusion of some taxa allied to this genus, and...
4 KB (411 words) - 15:21, 14 October 2023
What first attracted Stravinsky to Herman was the five trumpet unison on "Caldonia," which mirrored the new music of Gillespie... First it had been [Neal...
32 KB (4,228 words) - 08:42, 15 August 2024
of Movie Memorabilia". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-04-21. "Caldonia at the Bellagio Gallery helps illuminate the history of Black performance...
5 KB (411 words) - 19:28, 4 August 2024
DC Blossoms: "Hey Boy" / "I Know About Her" (cat# SRG 108) Bobby Reed: "Caldonia Brown" / "Baby Don't Leave Me" (previously unreleased track) (cat# SRG...
4 KB (432 words) - 06:00, 7 July 2024
Memphis (1971) With B. B. King B. B. King in London (1971) Green plays on "Caldonia" With Dave Kelly Dave Kelly (1971) With Country Joe McDonald Hold On It's...
7 KB (778 words) - 01:21, 8 February 2024
and Delivered" 1964 "Oh Baby Don't You Weep" "Please, Please, Please" "Caldonia" "The Things That I Used to Do" "Out of Sight" "Have Mercy Baby" 1965 "Papa's...
23 KB (2,397 words) - 02:37, 7 August 2024